Ice-Cream Christmas Cookies

For Christmas my grandma usually makes these little cookies half with jelly in the middle and half with pecans in the middle that she calls Ice-Cream cookies. Well she has been sick all week so she asked me if I could make the cookies this year, so I finally got my hands on the recipe for them. I forgot to take pictures during the mixing of the batter process, but it's not too complicated.

For this recipe you'll need butter, powdered sugar, egg yolk, vanilla, flour, jelly of your choice, and pecans.

First you cream the butter and the powdered sugar together. I thought that this was the most interesting part of the recipe because I have never made a cookie that has powdered sugar used instead of granulated sugar.

Next you add in the egg yolk and vanilla and beat well. Sift the flour into the mixture and then mix.

Now you have to form teaspoon sized balls and put them onto the baking sheet.

They should look like this

Then if you're making the ones with the pecans on top you gently press the pecans into the center of the cookie, but if you're making the ones with the jelly in the center, gentle press down in the center of the cookie with your thumb to create an indent.

Fill the indents with jelly (I used strawberry, grape, and orange) and then bake at 350 for 15 - 20 minutes (I baked mine for about 17 minutes and they turned out perfect).

When they're cool just dust the top with powdered sugar and they're ready to go! Now when I made them I tripled the batch so I would have plenty of cookies and I ended up with about 4 dozen. So I'd say that they make about a dozen a batch.

Ice-cream Cookies

6 tablespoons butter or margarine

6 tablespoons powdered sugar

1 beaten egg yolk

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup sifted flour

Instructions

Thoroughly cream butter and sugar

Add egg yolk and vanilla; beat well

Add flour

Drop teaspoons on un-greased cookie sheet

Top with fruits, nuts, jelly, or candies

Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes